Hmmm, maybe the trade defecit is because of an overvalued US$? Nothing to do with protectionism....
Anyway, the Canadian content stuff... Better that we worry about than nipples during the super bowl;) And it still doesn't affect US trade.
Yes, on Canadian stations. In order to do business in Canada, one could expect that. Rightly so. We have a hard enough time trying not to become Americans.
When have we asked FOX network or NBC or CBS or ABC or whatever to carry a certain percentage of Canadian content to broadcast in Canada?
"You could have refused and looked for another employer"
Unfortunately that's bullshit. Take a trip back through history about how the job market worked when employers said "if you don't like it you don't have to work here". Doesn't take too much digging to see the working conditions they had to deal with.
Thing is there's ALWAYS someone hurting enough to let themeselves be put in such a precarious position. Those are the people that the law is there to protect.
Loan sharks, sub minimum wage jobs, etc etc. When times are tough, people will sell their soul to put food on the table.
It's not worth it guys. Free trade with America is not bilateral. In Canada, we're screwed daily by America on issues like Softwood Lumber, Wheat, and fresh water
We're screwed on our water and forced to export it against our will.
We aren't allowed to pass legislation on split run magazines.
If there's an american lobby group that wishes higher prices, they can buy off some congressmen and get trade blocked.
Free trade with America is a farce. The only goods that flow freely are the goods that aren't protected by American lobby groups.
They will tie you up in litigation for years before opening up their market to you.
American Congress is a bunch of industry whores, nothing more.
Yup, you're the first to say it.
Drive space is really inconsequential.
When a 100GB drive is standard on most new computers, and it's pretty hard to find anything with less than 40, I'd say 260MB is pretty trivial.
There's plenty of stuff worth bitching about, but disk space isn't one of them.
"This mindset of "the user should work around the sofware" instead of the other way around is retarded."
Well let me tell you a story. I bought a monitor with a built in KVM -> really cool, but the K and M part didn't quite work right because it was USB only and I used a PS2 to USB adaptor for my keyboard. DirectX games didn't work with a PS2 -> USB adaptor -> i couldn't play them.
I had two choices: bitch, or buy a USB keyboard.
Really, bitching got me no where, so I bought the keyboard.
I think it would have been arrogant and ignorant to bitch otherwise.
ROFLMAO Because it doesn't support your USB mice, it's a no go on linux?
Go to Best Buy, get yourself a $10 headset, and go use it, or is that too much of an investment, where this company should invest thousands in dev costs bescause it doesn't support your USB mic?
Didn't all the hard drive manufacturers get together a couple years ago and drop their warranty from three years to one? (Well at least it happened at the same time anyway).
So now they're ramping it up to 5? Good for them I suppose, but the collusion when they all dropped their warranty length to one wear was a real jizz in the eye...
But, in the long term, PHP isn't going to press you to upgrade and collect more licensing fees.
Now, I'm not 100% on PHP5, but with PHP4, Zend didn't hide the fact that you had to purchase their precompiler and accelerator to make PHP as fast as its competitors out there. I mean, out of the box it was still pretty damn good, but still, it's not as free as the article makes it out to be. I call bullshit.
While I'd at first agree with you, notice that OSX has the object bar at the bottom. that's not in any Microsoft OS (Unless you install that POS Stardock memory hog).
I personally think that OSX interface sucks ass. Who needs icons dancing around their screen? But OSX users love it. So who am I to argue?
You're right. I agree with you. However there's the cop who has to write the report, and the DA who desides if the state needs to bother with this.
In this case, I think the DA would laugh it off and congratulate you if it made it that far.
Look at it this way. A friend of mine walked up to someone trying to break into his car in a parking lot. Walks up, says "whatcha doin'?". Thief replies "Uh, locked my keys in the car". Friend drills thief numerous times. Beats the tar out of him. Cop arrives. Cop sees thief beaten up. Friend is telling his story "blah blah blah asked him what he was doing...." and then the cop interrups "and he fell down, right?" Friend replies "no....." cop repeats himself, while nodding rather suspiciously "and he fell down, RIGHT?"...
The difference between the letter of the law and reality.
Unfortunately the geeks will be the ones complaining. "You took out the 20 extra buttons on my KDE taskbar???? WFT??? I CAN'T WORK NOW!!!". Geeks get dramatic with change. Heaven forbid you should try to make the platform easier to use, the geeks will complain it takes them longer to work.
Heck, I dropped my better half in front of Firefox and she squiremed for a bit. But I made fun of her for being dense and she figured it out;)
You know, I used to agree with you. Microsoft did very well with the jump from win 3.1 to win95. Some might argue it, but that design's been copied a great deal -> KDE and GNOME both have a button in the bottom left like win95 did. Apple's finder did the same thing with the apple icon in the top left.
But I seen some really big companies put out really poor design too. When I used PeopleSoft four years ago it was the worse designed app I had ever seen. Must have been over 50 buttons on one invoice screen, all with symbols. It was like reading friggin' hieroglyphics (sp?)!!!!
Commercial entities are just as prone to design failures as open source.
IMHO Look at KDE. While definately more powerful, the clutter on the taskbar is just crazy by default. There's too much crap enabled by default. I love KDE -> it's my WM of choice, but in no way would I consider it good design. New users will just look at that screen and think WTF??? What do I do?
(I honestly think GNOME is a much simpler design, and a much better choice for n00bs -> flame away!)
Yes, but that consideration is usually spelled out as funds achieved through fraudulent means. You cannot have an illegal item as consideration of a contract under common law. That could make the world of a difference.
Again, I sell you a trunkfull of cocaine, and offer you Net 30 days to pay. You don't pay. I can't sue because the item in consideration is illegal.
The jury's still out on where the law applies on email isn't it?
I mean, has there been a case to decide on whether the contract is governed by US law or Nigerian law?
I mean, they've figured this all out with snail mail (albeit with really odd reasoning).
And the other poster's right -> you need consideration to have a contract. This was a donation. A good feeling isn't consideration.
Yes, you're partially right...
All i'm trying to demonstrate that law in practice and law in textbooks are different.
Just because he committed fraud doesn't mean he's going to get charged.
In my case, the guy took the law into his own hands (much like the 419 "victim" did). In both cases, they broke the law. In my case my assaulter wasn't punished (which he should have been). Same here. According to the letter of the law, he should be punished. In practice he won't.
Really? Well here in Canada when I was 14 I got the tar kicked out of me by a 35 year old man while some others where firing bottle rockets at his house.
I walked away. I had nothing to do with it. this guy tackled me to the ground, and started choking me. He then punched me so hard he broke my nose. Blood everywhere. Remember I waas only 14.
The cop showed up. Told me that I was guilty because I was in the same age group as those firing the bottle rockets. Guilt by association (A fallacy learned in first year critical thinking classes).
The cop told me and my folks he wouldn't proceed with this, and even if he did (remember cops aren't lawyers), that it wouldn't win in court (how the hell did he have a crystal ball? are the standard issue RCMP regalila?).
Regardless, there's the book of the law and the law in practice, and not always do they match.
Today, I suffer from intense allergies, probably as a result of my broken nose. And have no recourse or restitution because it's 15 years later.
Actually, this case is fuzzy. IANAL, but I studied a bit of law.
Let's say for example you're selling pot. And the buyer doesn't pay up. The drug dealer isn't entitled to restitution because they are engaged in criminal activity.
However if the drug dealer is assaulted, the drug dealer IS entitled to press criminal charges for assault. However if this drug dealer seeks lost wages for the time he couldn't deal drugs, his case would most certainly be laughed out of court, and admitting your a drug dealer in open court is really, really stupid.
Has there been any previous cases where a scammer's been scammed and has seeked restitution? In order to do so would only reveal their own criminal basis. I can see it in court now "your honor, while trying to explain to the defendant I had $15 bazillion in the bank that I wanted to funnel through his bank account... He took me for $80"
As well, AFAIK in Canada, fraud $1,000 is not a criminal offence, it's only a civil offence. It's a waste of the penal system's time really.
So really, why not scam the scammers?
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Hey, admittedly it was in bad taste.... I doubt he'd be in the deep south playing that game with black people would he?
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btw... You're pretty knowledgeable
Hmmm, maybe the trade defecit is because of an overvalued US$? Nothing to do with protectionism.... Anyway, the Canadian content stuff... Better that we worry about than nipples during the super bowl ;) And it still doesn't affect US trade.
Yes, on Canadian stations. In order to do business in Canada, one could expect that. Rightly so. We have a hard enough time trying not to become Americans.
When have we asked FOX network or NBC or CBS or ABC or whatever to carry a certain percentage of Canadian content to broadcast in Canada?
"You could have refused and looked for another employer"
Unfortunately that's bullshit. Take a trip back through history about how the job market worked when employers said "if you don't like it you don't have to work here". Doesn't take too much digging to see the working conditions they had to deal with.
Thing is there's ALWAYS someone hurting enough to let themeselves be put in such a precarious position. Those are the people that the law is there to protect.
Loan sharks, sub minimum wage jobs, etc etc. When times are tough, people will sell their soul to put food on the table.
It's not worth it guys. Free trade with America is not bilateral. In Canada, we're screwed daily by America on issues like Softwood Lumber, Wheat, and fresh water
We're screwed on our water and forced to export it against our will.
We aren't allowed to pass legislation on split run magazines.
If there's an american lobby group that wishes higher prices, they can buy off some congressmen and get trade blocked.
Free trade with America is a farce. The only goods that flow freely are the goods that aren't protected by American lobby groups.
They will tie you up in litigation for years before opening up their market to you.
American Congress is a bunch of industry whores, nothing more.
Yup, you're the first to say it. Drive space is really inconsequential. When a 100GB drive is standard on most new computers, and it's pretty hard to find anything with less than 40, I'd say 260MB is pretty trivial. There's plenty of stuff worth bitching about, but disk space isn't one of them.
Yeah, but when the software goes wrong... Man does it go wrong. I've read some real horror stories about BMW 5 series software bugs...
Are you referring to a device in your vehicle called an alternator perhaps that's already belt driven?
"This mindset of "the user should work around the sofware" instead of the other way around is retarded."
Well let me tell you a story. I bought a monitor with a built in KVM -> really cool, but the K and M part didn't quite work right because it was USB only and I used a PS2 to USB adaptor for my keyboard. DirectX games didn't work with a PS2 -> USB adaptor -> i couldn't play them.
I had two choices: bitch, or buy a USB keyboard.
Really, bitching got me no where, so I bought the keyboard.
I think it would have been arrogant and ignorant to bitch otherwise.
ROFL Just installed and clicked "Skypeout - Global Calling at Local rates" and I get a connection refused.
Uhm, that can't be a good sign right?
ROFLMAO Because it doesn't support your USB mice, it's a no go on linux?
Go to Best Buy, get yourself a $10 headset, and go use it, or is that too much of an investment, where this company should invest thousands in dev costs bescause it doesn't support your USB mic?
Didn't all the hard drive manufacturers get together a couple years ago and drop their warranty from three years to one? (Well at least it happened at the same time anyway).
So now they're ramping it up to 5? Good for them I suppose, but the collusion when they all dropped their warranty length to one wear was a real jizz in the eye...
But, in the long term, PHP isn't going to press you to upgrade and collect more licensing fees.
Now, I'm not 100% on PHP5, but with PHP4, Zend didn't hide the fact that you had to purchase their precompiler and accelerator to make PHP as fast as its competitors out there. I mean, out of the box it was still pretty damn good, but still, it's not as free as the article makes it out to be. I call bullshit.
While I'd at first agree with you, notice that OSX has the object bar at the bottom. that's not in any Microsoft OS (Unless you install that POS Stardock memory hog). I personally think that OSX interface sucks ass. Who needs icons dancing around their screen? But OSX users love it. So who am I to argue?
You're right. I agree with you. However there's the cop who has to write the report, and the DA who desides if the state needs to bother with this.
In this case, I think the DA would laugh it off and congratulate you if it made it that far.
Look at it this way. A friend of mine walked up to someone trying to break into his car in a parking lot. Walks up, says "whatcha doin'?". Thief replies "Uh, locked my keys in the car". Friend drills thief numerous times. Beats the tar out of him. Cop arrives. Cop sees thief beaten up. Friend is telling his story "blah blah blah asked him what he was doing...." and then the cop interrups "and he fell down, right?" Friend replies "no....." cop repeats himself, while nodding rather suspiciously "and he fell down, RIGHT?"...
The difference between the letter of the law and reality.
Isn't it bad Karma for an OS to have a BUG as their mascot?
Heck, I dropped my better half in front of Firefox and she squiremed for a bit. But I made fun of her for being dense and she figured it out
You know, I used to agree with you. Microsoft did very well with the jump from win 3.1 to win95. Some might argue it, but that design's been copied a great deal -> KDE and GNOME both have a button in the bottom left like win95 did. Apple's finder did the same thing with the apple icon in the top left.
But I seen some really big companies put out really poor design too. When I used PeopleSoft four years ago it was the worse designed app I had ever seen. Must have been over 50 buttons on one invoice screen, all with symbols. It was like reading friggin' hieroglyphics (sp?)!!!!
Commercial entities are just as prone to design failures as open source.
IMHO Look at KDE. While definately more powerful, the clutter on the taskbar is just crazy by default. There's too much crap enabled by default. I love KDE -> it's my WM of choice, but in no way would I consider it good design. New users will just look at that screen and think WTF??? What do I do?
(I honestly think GNOME is a much simpler design, and a much better choice for n00bs -> flame away!)
Yes, but that consideration is usually spelled out as funds achieved through fraudulent means. You cannot have an illegal item as consideration of a contract under common law. That could make the world of a difference. Again, I sell you a trunkfull of cocaine, and offer you Net 30 days to pay. You don't pay. I can't sue because the item in consideration is illegal.
I like webmin as well. Much less overhead than KDE or X... Definately gets the job done for most server management needs.
The jury's still out on where the law applies on email isn't it? I mean, has there been a case to decide on whether the contract is governed by US law or Nigerian law? I mean, they've figured this all out with snail mail (albeit with really odd reasoning). And the other poster's right -> you need consideration to have a contract. This was a donation. A good feeling isn't consideration.
Yes, you're partially right... All i'm trying to demonstrate that law in practice and law in textbooks are different. Just because he committed fraud doesn't mean he's going to get charged. In my case, the guy took the law into his own hands (much like the 419 "victim" did). In both cases, they broke the law. In my case my assaulter wasn't punished (which he should have been). Same here. According to the letter of the law, he should be punished. In practice he won't.
Really? Well here in Canada when I was 14 I got the tar kicked out of me by a 35 year old man while some others where firing bottle rockets at his house. I walked away. I had nothing to do with it. this guy tackled me to the ground, and started choking me. He then punched me so hard he broke my nose. Blood everywhere. Remember I waas only 14. The cop showed up. Told me that I was guilty because I was in the same age group as those firing the bottle rockets. Guilt by association (A fallacy learned in first year critical thinking classes). The cop told me and my folks he wouldn't proceed with this, and even if he did (remember cops aren't lawyers), that it wouldn't win in court (how the hell did he have a crystal ball? are the standard issue RCMP regalila?). Regardless, there's the book of the law and the law in practice, and not always do they match. Today, I suffer from intense allergies, probably as a result of my broken nose. And have no recourse or restitution because it's 15 years later.
Actually, this case is fuzzy. IANAL, but I studied a bit of law. Let's say for example you're selling pot. And the buyer doesn't pay up. The drug dealer isn't entitled to restitution because they are engaged in criminal activity. However if the drug dealer is assaulted, the drug dealer IS entitled to press criminal charges for assault. However if this drug dealer seeks lost wages for the time he couldn't deal drugs, his case would most certainly be laughed out of court, and admitting your a drug dealer in open court is really, really stupid. Has there been any previous cases where a scammer's been scammed and has seeked restitution? In order to do so would only reveal their own criminal basis. I can see it in court now "your honor, while trying to explain to the defendant I had $15 bazillion in the bank that I wanted to funnel through his bank account... He took me for $80" As well, AFAIK in Canada, fraud $1,000 is not a criminal offence, it's only a civil offence. It's a waste of the penal system's time really. So really, why not scam the scammers?
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